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HARDtalk: Helen Clark

18/09/2009

Helen Clark

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Jon Sopel talks to Helen Clark, the Head of the UN Development Programme.

Jon Sopel talks to Helen Clark, the woman tasked with reducing poverty, tackling hunger and improving education and healthcare on behalf of the United Nations.

In September 2000, the Millennium Declaration was ratified. One hundred and eighty nine nations committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals - a plan to reduce poverty, tackle hunger and improve education and healthcare by 2015. Jon Sopel talks to Helen Clark, the woman tasked with delivering this on behalf of the United Nations. But how much progress has been made and can these sweeping targets ever be achieved?

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